Natioal Education day -Maulana Aazad
National Education Day 2019: This day is celebrated every year on November 11 in the country. It is celebrated on the birthday of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first Education Minister of India. Maulana Abul Kalam was born on November 11, 1888.
On this day, various programs and campaigns are organized to spread awareness about education and make every person literate. Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) had decided on September 11, 2008, to celebrate November 11 as National Education Day every year.
About Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• His complete name was - Maulana Sayyid Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad.
• Initially, his father was his teacher but later he was educated at home by the famous teacher in his area.
• Azad learned Arabic and Persian and then studied philosophy, geometry, mathematics and algebra. He learned the English language, history of the world and politics by studying himself.
• He met two of Bengal's leading revolutionaries Arvind Ghosh and Shri Shyam Sundar Chakraborty and joined the revolutionary movement against British rule.
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad set up secret revolutionary centres throughout North India and Bombay within two years.
• In 1912, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad started a weekly Urdu newspaper called 'Al-Hilal' to increase the feeling of patriotism among Muslims.
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad served the country from 1947 to 1958 as the First Minister of Education in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet. He died due to a heart attack on 22 February 1958.
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